TO LOYAL DEMOCRATS ! 



Wlio are the Sjonpathizera witli tlie 

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■WH^T THE REBELS S^Y. 



Fellow Citizens : 

A political contest of no ordinary importance is now goino- on 
in this State. We are called upon to choose a Governor, who will 
be' commander-in-chief of our State forces, a Legislature, which will 
act on measures vitally connected with the war, and members of 
Congress, who will shape our national policy, and who can hasten 
or hinder, in the most effectual manner, the progress of our loyal 
armies. 

The Governor of this State has, and will have, immense power 
for good or evil to our country. Requisitions for men are made 
through him. lie raises, equips, officers, and forwards the soldiers 
furnished by the State. By mere inaction he could almost paralyze 
the National Government — how much more by open opposition ? 
But, acting within all the forms of apparent loyalty, he might ap- 
point officers who would mould the troops into readiness for revolt 
against the Government, at the first fit opportunity for treason. 
Ho could raise technicalities mountain high in the way of a loyal 
obedience to the demands of the President. He could, with the ut- 
most plausibility, chill the patriotic feeling of the State, and impede 
every movement of the administration looking towards a " vi^-orous 
prosecution of the war." 

The election in this State is a cause of the deepest anxiety to 
the country. North and South. Southern men especially await its 
results with painful interest. We propose to show, by a few 
extracts from Southern organs which side the traitors-in-arma. 
desire to see triumphant. It is well to learn, even from our enemies- 

From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. IS; edited bij John M. Daniell, Buchanan's late Ministeir- 

to Sardinia. 
l^Iany anxious moments have passed since the commencement of the war.. The* 
fortmies of a nation have several times seemed to depend upon the turn of a singlon 
chance. Yet it is doubtful whether any pariod ha& yet occm-red more bmdemtwitl^ 
euspewa than the present. 






A large portion of the Northern people evince the disposition for a return to 

,tho ordinary ideas o(,(yviliz(j(J society. If they can prove themselves a party suffi- 

•'8ienity*«BtJ-ohg lo seciu«»ti»cii>own safety, they will establish something like sanb 

' i^iTirTcs lA Ihfd Novtn^fn* States, and render their Government amenable to the laws 

of jeaso^i. , Voider Jhese cpj\dUipns, it is possible to see a terminaiian lo that carnival of the 

D^'i^jn^infidthla^ over tH^N^rih American continent. 

' 'This a ilte matter to be deliaed at the next elections in New York, and otlier Northern 
Slates, now close at liand. If the men whose hold attempt to recyver the ordinary liberties cf an 
Anglo-Saxon people can elect their candidates, and so establish the fact that they constitute a 
majurily, the tyranny at WA.giiiNaTON will bb rapidly reduced to insignificance. 

Then, and then only, will it bo possible to stop tlie torrent of blood, and reduce 
the present war of extermination to jui ordinary i^sue of arms. 

It is diflScult to believe that the majority of a people, sprung from free nations, 
and having at least a large admixture of Anglo-Saxon blood, can be resolutely 
bent, and deliberately decided, on government at home not less absolute than thai 
which Russians prefer to freedom, with the concomitant perpetuation of a wai 
abroad, such as the subjects of Gengis and Timom.- could only delight in hitherto. 
The people of the United States have given, in the last two years, every evidenc* 
necessary to prove that they are such a people. But, as the reader now sees, somi 
BOLD ji£N have dared to utter ki their land the words of freedom, law, and order, once 
most familiar to the ear. We shaS soon know whether these werds have still an 
echo ; and loe may well lusteji anxiously, for on the answer depends tJie duration of the war. 

From the same paper, Oct. 16. 

Northern unity is ended. — For the last two years there has been but one party in 
the United States. This fatal fact has caused the death of men by the hundred 
thousand. * '- *^ <> <^- But this unity is dead, and the fact is the most 
favorable feature, now apparent, of the present situation. *^- " * "^ 

When political affviirs have regained something like a normal condition, some 
reasonable Jiopes may be entertained for an etid of the war. 

Are you desirous to establish " saxe politics'^ within the meaning 
of this traitor ? Are you willing to reduce our Government at 
Washington " to insignificanee," in order that the government at 
Richmond may become successful and victorious ? Will you help 
to send pleasant news to these " anxious" conspirators against law 
and liberty ? Will you aid in destroying that unity which they 
confess threatened them with destruction ? 

On the other hand, what do the loyal men of the South say con- 
cerning our election ? The brave Parson Brownlow is unequivocally 
opposed to the Seymour party. Col. A. J. Hamilton, two years ago 
a Democratic representative from Texas, is equally opposed to it. 
Every loyal refugee from the South, now in this State, is opposed 
to it and dreads its success. Such men value the Union more than 



Slavery, and they feel that the}^ are in personal danger iu case of 
the triumph here of a party which loves Slavery more than the 
Union. 

Listen to the oldest newspaper of Baltimore, and hear the voice 
of loyal Maryland : 

From the Baltimore American, Od. 17. 

The programme of the Breckinridge democracy in New York, under the lead 
of Horatio Seymour, Fernando Wood, Captain Rynders, and John Van Buren, is 
fully set forth and comprised in the speech made by the last named at the recent 
mass meeting in the metropolis, when he proposed * ' that when Richmond shall have 
been taken by the North, a Convention be held, and then, if an agreement cannot 
be determined on, to let the South go." 

Now this is exactly the *' aid and comfort " the Richmond traitors most desire 
in their sad extremity — a policy which will divide the loyal States and give them 
breathing space when they are so near deadly exhaustion. 

Late events demonstrate conclusively that the loyal States are filled with half- 
way traitors, who cannot be too closely watched ; with corrupt and scheming poli- 
ticians who would betray their country for the most insignificant consideration. 
Debauched with years of plunder ; looking on their country as nothing if it does 
not minister to their profligacy, they yet dream of new coalitions with the vile 
traitors of the cotton States ; they yet hope to earn the notice and the gratitude of 
these condemned wretches, if so be they can make themselves the instruments of 
saving them from the doom they have pronounced against themselves. 

o o o <:- With the rebels confessing their exhaustion, their sufferings, 
their weakness, this is no time for any to talk of making terms with them ; least 
of all, terms which would recognize tlie very end for which they claim to be 
fighting — the " dissolution of the Union." Despairing of help from their foreign 
sympathizsrs, they have turned now to the traitors scattered tliroughout the loyal 
States, hoping that, by their aid, the great Government which has stood their 
active, open assaults may fall by the secret machinations of those it has tolerated ; 
nay, in many instances, cherished. 

a o o We look, then, with confidence, for an overwhelming rebuke to 
treason, and all its affiliations, at the hands of the citizens of the Empire State ; a 
rebuke which will drive disloyalty to its dens and caverns for the rest of the 
war. Let it not be left to such States as Maryland and Kentucky to rebuke do- 
mestic treason in a fitting manner, unless the great States we have named would 
surrender their claims m the past to patriotism, which have so distinguished them. 

"A man is known by the company he keeps." It is noticeable 
that the favorite companion of Iloratio Seymour, on the platform, 
is John Yan Buren, who in his presence, and without a word of 
disapproval from him, declared himself in favor of consenting to a 
dissolution if, after Richmond should be taken, the South still 
desired to leave us — and who said, that while General Wadsworth 



"went down to ivJiip the South, he (Van Buren) stayed home to lei 
them GO." 

How is it that the nomination of Seymour is accompanied by 
the nomination of Benjamin and Fernando Wood for Congress ? 
When did Ben Wood ever pretend to be in favor of a vigorous pro- 
secution of the war ? And who ever suspected Fernando of the 
least sincerity in supporting it ? Why do these men take such a 
warm interest in the success of Seymour, if he is a really loyal 
man ? 

In this county, the Seymour party present for your suffrages at 
least one man whose sympathies are notoriously with disloyalty, 
Thomas A. Gardiner, their candidate for County Treasurer, voted 
against every war measure in the Senate of this State, even after 
the fall of Fort Sumter. It was generally known last fall, that he 
believed the South to be in the right, and we have no information 
of any change in his views. 

There are men in this city who openly expressed their wish that 
every soldier who went from Brooklyn might be killed. They are 
every one for Seymour. There are men all over the State who have 
said the same thing, in all varieties of atrocious language. They 
are all hard at work for Seymour. This is no sunnise, or vague 
rumor. You know these things to be so, and we only forbear men- 
tioning names, in order to avoid raising minor and personal issues. 

Submission — degradation — is really the end which the Seymour 
party mean to accomplish. They want, as Major Key lately said 
(and was dismissed from the army for saying), to wear out both 
sides, and compel the North to compromise. They want to adopt 
the Montgomery Constitution, and come under the dominion of Jef- 
ferson Davis. This is the real programme, which, in some places, 
and especially in New Jersey, is not at all disguised. 

Such men, wo judge, must heartily indorse the sentiments of an 
article which we reprint below, and which will give you a better 
idea of the view which our intended Southern masters entertain of 
us than anything that we could say. The following article is but 
one of a thousand which have appeared in the Southern press : 

Fr(m the Richmond Whig, June 25, 18G2. 
The whole experience of the -war is an attestation of the truth long since dis- 
covered by impartial ohservers, that the jiasteu rack of this continent is found in 



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the Southern States. Of a better stock, originally, and habituated to manlier pursuits 
and exercises, they have ruled in affairs of State by force of the stronger will and 
larger wisdom that pertain to and distinguish superior races of men, while on the 
held of battle they have in every contest held a priority of place, conceded to them 
by their present adversaries. 

This natural dominancy of the Southern people has had much to do in bringing 
on the war. The infkriok race, grown strong in numbers and ambitious f»om 
prosperity, have revolted against, and now seek to overthrow and destroy those 
whose superiority was a constant source of envy and reproach. There is no fiercer 
malevolence than that of caste, and it is this which has so long stirred the Yankee 
bile. Always, in the presence of tJie Soutliern gentlemen, he has felt a strong and painfully 
repressed impulse to take off his hat. The conscious infet-inrity has galled the jealous and 
malignant creature, until ho has broken out in serviie insurrection. He has vainly con- 
cluded that bis numbers can overwhelm and exterminate the subjects of his envy, 
and that he, succeeding to the broad acres and lifberal habitudes of the Southern 
gentry, will come to be looked upon as a gentleman too ! 

With us the contest is one for hereditary rights, for the saci'ed things of home, 
for the old repute of the better hlood— with the Yankee it is a rebellious and infatuated 
struggle for a place he is unworthy of, for privileges he would degrade, for property he 
■would barter, and for institutions he could neither comprehend nor enjoy. It is 
the old and never-ending strife between patrician and proletarian, between gentle and 
vile. It is the offer of battle on a new field of muscle against spirit — numbers 
against courage. It is not upon Southern soil and among the descendants of 
Oavaliers and Huguenots that this battle will go in favor of brute force. 

Prepare, then, fellow-citizens, to take off your hats, and go on 
bended knees, and with humble gestures of entreaty, implore for- 
giveness of ''' THE MASTER RACE." Take as a peace-offering the 
heads of Brownlow, of Hamilton, and of the thousands of gallant 
East Tennesseeans in our army — ^present them meekly to the " de- 
scendants of the Cavaliers," and pray to be permitted to share the 
bliss of their negroes. Are you not " ax inferior race ?" 

But notwithstanding all this meek submission, learn, oh "jealous 
and malignant creatures," that the chivalric South will not have 
yo'u on any terms whatever. Read from the same paper of Octo- 
ber ISth : 

Archbishop Hughes, in a speech which he made to the Irish Bishops, declared 
that the unity of the States was the vital object of the present struggle ; unity 
under the present Government ; or, if that could not bo accomplished, unity under 
the Southern Government was preferable to dissolution. This, we believe, was sub- 
stantially his declaration, though we have not now his speech before us, and the 
same idea has been expressed by several other Northern men. 

Tiiere are those who put no faith in these avowals, but we are inclined to think 
that they are sincere ; and that rather than give up the benefits of the Union, the 



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North would be willing to be whipped, and tmite again upon such a Constitution as 
the Sou^.h would prescribe. 

No paper guarantee, however plain and explicity worded, can bind men who 
have already proved themselves faithless to'all paper engagements, and who have 
parted with their own rights under the old Constitution, for the purpose of depriv- 
ing their neighbors of rights guaranteed by that instrument. After the experience 
(rfthe past we might safely defy the wit of man to frame a Constitution wUich Puri- 
tanical ingenuity, greed, and fanaticism would not subvert. Nor, after the sacrifices 
which the South has suffered at Northern hands, could slie ever consent, of liar own free 
will, to live under the same Government with that people. 

The blood of our murdered children would cry from the ground against their 
fathers, if they could ever bo guilty of such unnatural and monstrous ingratitude. 
If the South has given her blood without a murmur to this contest, it is not because 
she does not value that blood, but because she values freedom more than life or 
any earthly possession. Precious, more precious than aught else, save her honor, are 
the jewels she has laid upon the altar of liberty, and never can she consent to shaJce 
hands again under one Government with men who have made so many vacant places in 
Southern households, and whose steel is dripping with the blood of our brethren and 
children. 

Ucnceforth tee are two people. If conquered — if forced into provincial vassalage — 
we must bear our condition with such fortitude as we may. To that which is inevi- 
table — to that which involves no culpability of their own — the best and bravest 
men may submit. But to vjluntary debasement — to willing fraternity with the kobbers 
AND MDRDEREBS OF ous PEOPLE — NEVER, NEVER. We dcslre. not to make slaves, 
subjects, of fellow-citizens of deadly enemies. We must live apart. 

This is the deliberate and fixed determination — not of ^the 
non-slaveholders — not of the "poor whites" — but of the men who 
rule the South. They know that they cannot exterminate the free 
sentiment of the North, and they are resolved, come what may, that 
they will have no alliance with it. 

The result, therefore, of the success of the Seymour party will 
be simply to insure the destruction of the Union. Never will the 
Southern leaders consent to return to a common government with 
the North. The only way in which the Union can be restored, 4s 
through crushing out all treason by the National arms. 

This leads us to speak briefly of the President's recent Proclama- 
tion of Emancipation. This measure is one which was urged by 
some of the leading Democrats in the country. Its expediency and 
justice have been long argued before the people. It is too late to 
argue about it now. To retract it would be the instant, utter, final 
ruin of the nation. We should be a hissing and by-word to every 
people under 'heaven. Foreign intervention, now perhaps imminent, 



would then be instantaneous. Th^ whole war would collapse and 
fail. The simple question now is : " Shall the war be successfully 
carried on under that Proclamation, or shall it end in disaster V' 
John Van Buren says, while Horatio Seymour sits by, '^ Let it rutlier 
cease /" If you think so too, vote for Seymour. Vote for the candi- 
date of Ben and Fernando Wood. Vote for Thomas A. Gardiner 
and his companion. 

We ask you to remember that the " people" have patiently and 
earnestly sustained the x/-ar, while conducted for eighteen months 
by conservative generals, on conservative principles, and with con- 
servative results. About 5,000 slaves have been returned to their 
masters, by army officers, in that time. Out of 230 generals^ 
appointed up to last August, over 200 had voted against Mr. Lin- 
coln in 1860. Nearly, or quite, two-thirds of the subordinate 
officers had done the same, while it is now a settled fact that two- 
thirds of the men in the ranks were Republicans. Witness the 
votes of our soldiers whenever they have had a chance to speak. 

Have we not, then, shown a generous spirit ? Have we not 
borne and waited for results long enough ? Have we not a right 
to ask loyal Democrats to be in their turn a little patient, while a 
Qew policy is tried — the conservative course of dealing being a 
proved and awful failure ? 

Democrats shall still lead our armies. Republicans and Demo- 
crats will fill up the humblest positions. Do we ask too much of 
you, in asking your vote for that loyal and true Democrat, James S. 
Wadsworth, for Governor, and for his equally loyal associates on 
the ticket ? Surely you will not refuse thus to hold up the hands of 
the heroes who represent you on the battle-field ; surely you will 
not allow traitors at home to make their victories fruitless I No I 
you will stand with us by the side of " Liberty and Union, now and 
forever," until their efforts and ours are crowned with a glorious 
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